Analyzing the Characteristics of Online News Best Comments

김진우,; 조혜인,; 이봉규,

doi:10.9728/dcs.2018.19.8.1489

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“…Out of 391,692 user comments from 1567 news stories on minimum wage, 24.1% had been deleted, either by the authors themselves or by Naver due to the violation of the platform’s ethical guidelines. This statistic corresponds to an earlier finding that, in general, 26.9% of news stories on Naver’s economy news section had been removed (Kim and Oh, 2018). Our binary bias classifier (0 = liberal; 1= conservative) inferred the political slants of the remaining 297,197 user-generated news comments.…”

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News comment sections and online echo chambers: The ideological alignment between partisan news stories and their user comments

Han

Lee

et al. 2022

Journalism

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This study explored the presence of digital echo chambers in the realm of partisan media’s news comment sections in South Korea. We analyzed the political slant of 152 K user comments written by 76 K unique contributors on NAVER, the country’s most popular news aggregator. We found that the political slant of the average user comments to be in alignment with the political leaning of the conservative news outlets; however, this was not true of the progressive media. A considerable number of comment contributors made a crossover from like-minded to cross-cutting partisan media and argued with their political opponents. The majority of these crossover commenters were “headstrong ideologues,” followed by “flip-floppers” and “opponents.” The implications of the present study are discussed in light of the potential for the news comment sections to be the digital cafés of Public Sphere 2.0 rather than echo chambers.

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 88%